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LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – At least 40 lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party are willing to vote down her possible Brexit deal if it leaves the United Kingdom ‘half in and half out’ of the European Union, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday. “My estimate is that there are at least 40 colleagues who are not going ...

Hong Kong’s leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating demands for an explanation of the unprecedented challenge to freedom of the press. Victor Mallet, the FT’s Asia news editor and a British national, angered authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong by hosting a speech at the city’s ...

First Theresa May and now Jean-Claude Juncker – the politicians negotiating Brexit just love to dance. According to some, European Commission president’s jig ahead of a speech in Brussels was designed to mock Theresa May’s…

San Francisco, Oct 9 (IANS) Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has acquired Glint, a California-based employee engagement company that helps organisations get feedback from employees. The acquisition, the financials of…

A new attempt to envisage the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa suggest any attempt to land there might risk being spiked by sharp blades of ice as high as four-story buildings, IFL Science reports. Europa ranks high among what scientists consider the most promising places to find extraterrestrial life. That’s why several ideas for missions to study the moon are ...

A Spanish court ruled Monday that a doctor stole a newborn child nearly five decades ago, one of the many abducted during Spain’s 20th-century dictatorship, but cleared him because the statute of limitations had expired. The Madrid court said 85-year-old gynecologist Eduardo Vela could not be punished because one of those who were stolen, plaintiff Ines Madrigal, did not make ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A Turkish official says the Saudi ambassador to Turkey has been summoned to the ministry to request Riyadh’s cooperation in an investigation over journalist Jamal Khashoggi who went missing after visiting the Saudi…

Two American researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for studying the interplay of climate change and technological innovation with economics. William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University…

PALU, Indonesia–The confirmed death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island neared 2,000 on Monday, but thousands more are believed unaccounted for and officials said search teams plan to stop looking for victims later this week. The official toll hit…